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Moated site

Barrettstown, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Moated site, Barrettstown, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Barrettstown
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.49606, -7.23902
SMR number
KK031-050----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Low-lying area on margin of wet ground to W and S, overgrown with larches. It is adjacent on the W side to the townland boundary and lies c. 550m SE of Danganbeg Castle (KK031-007----). Referred to by O'Kelly (1969, 169) as a 'moat' in the 'moat field' and locally known as 'the rath'. A rectangular, almost square area (max. dims. 23m E-W; 18.5m N-S) enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 2.5m; H 0.5-1.5m) and a wide deep waterlogged flat-bottomed fosse (Wth at top 5m; Wth at base 2.6m; D 0.9m), except on the S side where the fosse has been infilled.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 19 April 2023

References

O'Kelly, O. 1969 (Reissue 1985) The place-names of County Kilkenny. Kilkenny.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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